Thursday, October 24, 2019

Ace Comic Con 2019: Fast Times in Rosemont IL with Jake Gyllenhaal - Pt. I


Author's Note:  Warning for explicit language used in posted social media.  My apologies! But I have to post them in their original form.

Good morning/day/evening!  Who threw that helmet for Mr. Jones to autograph?  lol.  PG has a day off of work today, so y'all get this post.  ;-)  Let's get this started.

So, Ace Comic Con started on Friday, Oct 11 and Mr. Jakers made his appearance the next morning, all bright eyed and bushy-tailed.  Well, let's say that he did after kind of a slow and sluggish start as he was looking a bit curmudgeonly in many of the first released photos.  Curiously, this twitter fan seemed to point out Jake's non-creative expression:

But no, no, as one would expect, Jake takes to theater and one could say that posing for photo ops is sort of like theater, involving cosplay and creative posing.  He "came around" and loosened up as time went on, posing with fans' signs/props and interacting.  Some were long-time fans and there were numerous glowing remarks about their conversations with Jake, which is great to read.




























Goofing around, trying to help the fans fulfill their ideal photo op:



This gal got a real dandy.  Very nice!



Oodles and oodles of photos, enough to fill a photo album. I mean, countless.  In fact, several days passed before the final trickle ceased. 



lol, Jake's been physically closer to this fan below, than he has been so far with Jeanne Cadieu.  LOL!







Did this fan below know of Jake's love for ice cream and frozen yogurt?  I think that sundae must've been real - it sure brightened up those blue eyes, didn't it?  ;-)  Aww, very nice!!




Seems this fan is playing off of the social media meme of Jake treating his vintage wired earbuds like a string of licorice.  I like their pose, too.



PG votes the photo op below as Best Pose!
Goodness, if you were a Jake fan or a Holland fan, there was a photo op pic out there for you!  :-)  Those weren't even a drop in the bucket.

 Meanwhile, back home, the head of the household, Austin, was tabulating all of those credit transactions from autographs and photo ops....

Health insurance premiums, Costco-sized boxes of kale chips, gallon jars of peanut butter, pallets of Wet Wipes, 12 (+ 1 pr free!) packs of Buster Brown socks, 170 oz. jugs of Dreft, birthday and Christmas presents, and piano lessons for all the Baby Tiles!!  That makes both Daddy and Papa GyllyNichols very happy. 


There were others at the Ace Comic Con; Chris Hemsworth (Thor) for one.


Austin's former co-star Norman Reedus from The Walking Dead, Game of Thrones' Kit Harrington and Elton John star, Taron Egerton. 

Kit in plaid at his panel:



Taron Egerton is adorable.  So animated and he really looked like he tried his best to give every fan a great photo.


Jake and Holland had a panel on Saturday, early evening.  Questions about heroes, future projects, what did Jake think about the Marvel fandom and what kind of project would Jake/Holland like to work on together were just a few that were posed to the actors.  Compared to pre-Far From Home promo, the panel itself was surprisingly bland and conservative, almost awkward at times.  This fun selfie with the monstrous-sized audience however, was a misleading cue to what would later follow.



Saturday sounds like it was a long day since their panel was supposed to start at 6:15 in the evening, but ran about an hour late.  Jake's schedule on Sunday started at 11 am, so not a whole lot of time to rest his feet.  Hopefully, Austin and his Big Sis-in-Law Maggie were able to handle the "curfew chaos" [aka bedtime] at home, so Jake could catch some winks!   After all, his last scheduled event for Sunday was to be at 4pm for an autograph session.  And it was a good thing, too because there were a few folks who thought that Jake was "looking tired".  


"Very tired" "I understand you're tired. Your face showed it." Perplexing, to be sure.  Four-five o'clock would no doubt come soon enough.  Not quite so fast, though.  At three o'clock on Sunday afternoon, there was some possible drama:













































On and on and on.  As this particular author had seen the first tweet and the following rapid-fire tweets and suspected misleading information, I used my social media to make some observations:



And then it was revealed that the "rumor" had been "a joke".

And the tweet train pulled a railroad switch and proceeded to spread the word that it was a JOKE.

Ridiculing, followed by...








The airwaves then grew quiet and but for a solo alleged O'Hare airport sighting,


And Austin, who had been silent all prior week and AceCon weekend, suddenly was back on social media.



Looks like someone is still sporting their This Close head of curls:


 
And now that Papa was home, Austin had some time to catch up on a bit of "me" time:

But did this mean that it was time for Jakers to enjoy a bit of laying low time?  Well, not if you used his social media activity as a barometer of family time.  

Convenient photos of Jake with the beard Jeanne Cadieu appeared on the 16th with the fan Instagrammers making sure everyone knew the pictures were from Wednesday, the 16th and placing him in The Big Apple:




With cup and lid in hand, the two took a brief walk that probably covered half of a street block and took less than 3 minutes to do.  

And just think - the most entertaining content was yet to come.

Continue to Part 2 of 2 under this link:

pic sources:  sports gifs and video, IHJ, gfycat
our playlist:  How Do You Do - Mouth and MacNeal
                     Don't Cry - Asia
                     Hero - David Crosby and Phil Collins
                     Wonderful - Everclear
                     Still Fighting It - Ben Folds
                     Cat's In the Cradle - Harry Chapin



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